Lit Hub Weekly: October 29 – November 2, 2018

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TODAY: In 1871, Walt Whitman replied for the first time to his British admirer, Anne Gilchrist, (tactfully) declining her offer of marriage.

“I refuse to become an invisible woman, hiding away, like the protagonist of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, in some underground refuge.” Gabrielle Bellot on empathy, desire, and resisting erasure as a trans woman. | NYRB